24th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 29 August-3, September 2004, Yokohama, Japan
Paper ICAS 2004-7.9.3 (I.L.)

THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENCE BASED PRODUCTS: MANAGING BY DESIGN SPACES

A. Hatchuel, P. le Masson, B. Weil
Ecole des Mines de Paris, 60 boulevard Saint Michel, F-75 272 Paris, France & The Fenix Program at Stockholm School of Economics, S-113 83, Stockholm, Sweden

Keywords: science-based products, innovation, design spaces

The design of Science Based Products (SBPs) combines three main issues: i) to explore a functional space; ii) to produce scientific knowledge on key phenomena of the concept; and iii) to be manageable. In this paper we introduce the notion of design space as a collective working place where designers can “act to learn on what has to be learned”. We show that the design of a SBPs is managed as a sequence of design spaces.

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